Quotes

Sitcom is a new medium. It's an infant. Its thirty minutes is a strength crying out for new writers to take it to new places. That I've earned a knighthood from it will, I hope, nudge it towards a little more creative respectability. It earns its keep.

[on Last of the Summer Wine (1973)] It's a different world now, and I'm very glad my time was in the world I knew. I don't know how far I would get now, the show probably wouldn't be made these days.